Chevrolet To Offer Unlimited Data Plan With Cars (bbc.com)

Chevrolet has become the first carmaker to offer an unlimited data plan with its cars. From a report on BBC: The deal, for a 4G LTE data plan, applies to cars sold in the US from 3 March and will cost $20 a month. It is being offered with the help of US carrier OnStar and will see vehicles fitted with a wi-fi hotspot that connects to the web via LTE. Chevrolet said it was offering the deal because in-car data use had grown so fast. Figures gathered by Chevrolet suggest the amount of data used via wi-fi in its cars jumped by 200% last year. In 2016, it said, Chevrolet in-car hotspots had handled about four million gigabytes of data. The LTE-based hotspots are available across the entire range of vehicles made by Chevrolet.

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Re: garage parking + wifi extender

[leonbev]

Yeah, I wonder how much they are going to let you download before they start throttling your account.

Otherwise, you'll have some jerk downloading a Terabyte of porn off of BitTorrent every month and slowing down everyone on the cell phone tower.

What about a complete opt-out of this?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is it even an option to have none of this wireless tethering to known-flawed automaker systems that aren't designed with a lick of security in mind?